the NES Music Authors List

Doommaster1994 · Post by **Doommaster1994** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 10:59 pm

lol I've done that before. *Cough*Color Dreams*Cough*
So are those undumpable SPCs possible to get dumped or is there no chance? I know that there's SNSF files but there aren't any for the ones I want (James Bond Jr., Paperboy 2, Wayne's World)

EDIT: Not sure if I mentioned this before but I went through and completed the godawful lightgun game from MegaSoft called Master Shooter and it credits G2 and Tommy Shih for the music. Could Tommy Shih be the real name of Martino, Melody or Ruth? The world may never know.
And I didn't see the full names of the composers for Werewolf so let me put them down: Shogo Sakai, Takafumi Miura and Yusuke Takahama. I also didn't see the composer for Burgertime listed so let me put it down here: Tokinori Kaneyasu.
Also:
Flinstones 1 - Y. Yamada, N. Yagashita
Flinstones 2 - S.Takahagi, Masafumi Ogata
Tecmo NBA Basketball - Paul Webb, The Fat Man (George Sanger).

KungFuFurby · Post by **KungFuFurby** » Fri Nov 04, 2011 4:25 pm

I've found out that for those undumpable SPCs (specifically Mr. Bloopy and all of those Mindscape games with those shared sound drivers), they use pointers that update in real-time.

And for my two cents...

Cool World - Jonathan Dunn (ROM text. Currently I don't have a staff roll to work with for this game. The SNES version is missing a composer because there's nothing under the audio category in the staff roll.)

Vorde · Post by **Vorde** » Sat Nov 05, 2011 11:07 am

tepples wrote:
bucky o'hare wrote:The soundtrack is identical across ports, but "Charley Sada" is credited in Stinger. So I thought that Rusher Shinya was a mistake at first, but he is in the Moero Twinbee credits instead! Unless they are the same person, but I'm pretty sure they are not because they have been credited together...?
Dance Dance Revolution Extreme (8th Mix) features contributions by DE-SIRE, RevenG, 180, Omega, Naoki, and ZZ. All are nicknames of Naoki MAEDA, and he wrote most of the music you hear in Overplayed. Likewise, Kyle Ward of In the Groove goes by Inspector K, KaW, , and others.

But more likely, one of them wrote the music for Stinger and another ported it to another platform.

Wow that's crazy that you guys mentioned this because I'm a huge DDR and ITG fan myself.
Does anyone on here happen to play these games?

Post by **tepples** » Sat Nov 05, 2011 2:32 pm

Jeroen does. I used to be a big fan of DDR and ITG until Konami's lawyers went berserk against ITG.

Vorde · Post by **Vorde** » Sat Nov 05, 2011 3:40 pm

Yeah it really killed everything. I was very upset about it since I grew up playing 8th Mix at the arcades, and also In The Groove 2.
Never was that good at them, but went to local tournaments and made a lot of friends just playing the game.

tokumaru · Post by **tokumaru** » Sat Nov 05, 2011 3:50 pm

tepples wrote:I used to be a big fan of DDR and ITG until Konami's lawyers went berserk against ITG.

And what does a company suing another have anything to do with you enjoying a game? Nothing that happens can possibly modify the games you already own and like.

Vorde · Post by **Vorde** » Sat Nov 05, 2011 4:20 pm

As that's true, people get bored of playing the same songs and stepcharts.
It's true that customs for In The Groove arcade machines completely made the arcade as "Open Sourced" as it could get, but with In The Groove 3 being cancelled while it was close to completion and not having any other company that seemed to care so much towards the players, and how people felt about the game, Konami bought the franchise to prevent it from getting any better.
So what does Konami do?
Why they make more and more awful home versions of the same game whipped together with some awfully made remixes of Pop music.

Post by **tepples** » Sat Nov 05, 2011 4:44 pm

tokumaru wrote:
tepples wrote:I used to be a big fan of DDR and ITG until Konami's lawyers went berserk against ITG.
And what does a company suing another have anything to do with you enjoying a game?

Jeroen asked me that. It might have been a nagging fear: "am I next?" That plus the dense-foam dance pads that I owned at the time were wearing out.

Nothing that happens can possibly modify the games you already own

Recalls can. So can breakdowns and inability to find replacement parts. There's no RedOctane anymore.

and like.

After Konami v. Roxor went down, there was mumbling among the community about possible suits against the StepMania developers and people who make simfile packs, but I guess in five years that hasn't materialized.

KungFuFurby · Post by **KungFuFurby** » Sun Nov 06, 2011 9:31 am

I have a theory why: In The Groove was a commercial product (to some extent). Stepmania was not commercial to my knowledge.

Doommaster1994 · Post by **Doommaster1994** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 9:56 am

I just got another game's credits:
J League Winning Goal credits Shige Chan and Yoko Chan, which are the aliases of Shigenori Masuko and Yoko Suzuki. I beat J League Fighting Soccer but there is no credits. The GameBoy version credits Fumito Tamayama but I think the GB version has different music, so I think Masuko and Suzuki are possible composers of it. I asked Fumito Tamayama if he composed those GRC games that didn't have credits but he never got back to me. (He has an account on the Project2612 forums.) Also, Predator I believe may have been composed by Junichi Saito. He has been credited on a lot of the Pack-In-Video games that happen to have credits.

I have found out the composer of the Lolo games and a few others.
All the Lolo games were composed by Hideki Kanazashi. In Eggerland he's credited as 'Zap Ajisai', in Meikyuu no Fukkatsu, he's credited as 'Nige no Kanazashi' (translate anyone?) and the NSF for Othello doesn't credit him, but he's in there credited as 'Rodeo Kanagushi'. I believe he also composed Joust, Millipede and Defender II. Also, seeing all the composers at Graphic Research, Fumito Tamayama may not have composed Asmik Kun Land, or at least, not alone. Hiroto Kanno, Shigenori Masuko, Shinji Tachikawa, Yoko Suzuki, and Tinpu Uchibori are also possible composers. I asked Fumito if he composed the game but he never replied. When I recorded the MP3 soundtrack, I just put the artists down as Fumito Tamayama, Shigenori Masuko and Yoko Suzuki.
Also, F-15 Strike Eagle's manual credits Ken Lagace, and some of the music in that game is also used in F-117A Stealth Fighter. If that doesn't convince you that Ken Lagace composed that, he confirmed it for me, too.

Oishinbo (Japan only) is composed by Michiharu Hasutani. I beat the game and it doesn't have credits, but I am planning on buying the game CIB on eBay. It uses Hasuya's instruments. All the songs in the game, as far as I know, are real songs, but I don't know the names of them. If someone knows their names, please let me know.

Update: 12/30/11 - I see that Boulderdash's NSF credits 'Victor Musical Industries'. The game has credits and it says that Yusuke Takahama, Takafumi Miura, and Shogo Sakai are the composers, so update your NSFs!

Update: 1/3/12 - Happy new year everyone! Last year, I played through a bunch of Sachen games that were known to have credits, but the composers were not in the NSFs. Most of the pictures of the credits can be found at the VGMPF Wiki under the Game Credits section. I also got a hold of Dan Lawton, founder of Color Dreams, and he told me Vance Kozik did the Wisdom Tree games' music.
Bible Adventures - Vance Kozik
Cobra Mission - Vincent Cheng
Exodus: Journey to the Promised Land - Vance Kozik
Gaiapolis - Chou Yuan-Hei
Hell Fighter - Lih-Chyun Maa, Mr. X
King Neptune's Adventure - John Dwyer
King of Kings: The Early Years - Vance Kozik
Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf - Aran Lee Shige
Magical Tower - Amadeus Y. Wang
Menace Beach/Sunday Funday - Vance Kozik
Mermaids of Atlantis/Bubble Bath Babes - Kossel Huang
Olympic IQ - Richard
Operation Secret Storm - Dan Lawton told me 'Sandy Sims' isn't a real person. Possibly an alias for John Dwyer.
Orb 3D - Peter Stone (May have mentioned this before, but if not, here it is.)
Parodius - Hiroshi Takeyasu, Tomoya Tomita (Credited only last names)
Puzzle - B.H. Ting?
Q-Boy - Yuan Mei Chou (I actually contacted this guy)
Raid 2020 - Dan Burke, Frank Waung
Robodemons - Dan Burke
Rockball - (Apparently this one's supposed to have credits, but I beat the game and didn't get any)
Silver Eagle - Amy Chou, Amadeus Wang
Super Pang - Amy Chou, L.K.C.
Tagin' Dragon - Rolland Cheng
Touchdown Fever - Tarkun, Niko-Chan Yoko
Worm Visitor - Amadeus L Wang, Ei How Yang

Update 4/30/12 - Today, you guys will know all the composers behind the Graphic Research games. I recently got in touch with Fumito Tamayama. He had some interesting things to say and he was able to recall the composers for the NES games which didn't have credits (Asmik Kun Land and J League Fighting Soccer):
Asmik Kun Land - Manabu Ito
Baken Hisshou Gaku: Gate In - Fumito Tamayama
Baseball Fighter - Fumito Tamayama
J League Fighting Soccer - Yoko Suzuki
J League Winning Goal - Shigenori Masuko, Yoko Suzuki
Secret Ties - Fumito Tamayama
Widget - Shinji Tachikawa, Fumito Tamayama, Tinpu Uchibori, Yuji Suzuki
Vegas Connection - Hiroto Kanno, Mai Kidokoro

Update 5-7-12
I have recently talked to former Kemco▲Seika programmer Hiroyuki Masuno, and he has verified for creating the music to all of the Kemco▲Seika games, so update your NSFs with Hiroyuki Masuno:
The Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout
The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle
Deja Vu
Kid Klown (Composer: M. Takenaka, Hiroyuki credited as Sound Performer)
North & South (With Y.Kawikame?) [kingshriek please verify this]
Shadowgate
Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular
Spy Vs Spy
Spy Vs Spy - Island Caper

Update 1-4-13
Motor City Patrol and Noah's Ark - Chris Gill (Sound Driver programmed by Link Tomlin)