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Originally Posted by MIDIWIZI
I'm not sure how Grandma could be considered to not be Kondo's? I disagree with the idea that the artist names on the "PEACH" CD aren't concrete, they're clearly not just arbitrarily given to random sound team members for commentary. There's also the Kondo performance of "Grandma" from the 25th Anniversary Concert in London. |
this is just me being pedantic over how the Nintendo Sound Selection albums never explicitly state that the commentary is written by the composers/arrangers. it makes the most sense, and does line up with official credits we do have. besides, it wouldn't make sense to get a minor composer for a game to comment on a track they didn't even make, when most other tracks on the series have commentary by (probably) the actual composer/arranger.
I definitely think Kondo composed the song, but the question remains whether Nagata arranged it.
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Originally Posted by MIDIWIZI
I'm also mildly curious as to who "r" is, credited on the E3 Title file. It doesn't line up to anyone obvious to me.
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since I started researching Nintendo composer suffixes, I have compiled a (slightly unorganized) list:
Spoiler:
sg = Shigetoshi Gohara
ry = Ryo Nagamatsu
k = Koji Kondo
n = Kenta Nagata
w = Hajime Wakai
t = Kazumi Totaka
my = Mahito Yokota
g = Toru Minegishi
yi = Yasuaki Iwata
nk = Naoto Kubo
fs = Shiho Fujii
aa = Atsuko Asahi
mt = Manaka Tominaga / Manaka Kataoka (found in Amiibo Festival, Wii Fit)
z = unknown (found in Wii Degree) suspects: Masato Mizuta
r = unknown (found in Wind Waker HD) suspects: Masafumi Kawamura, Taiju Suzuki, Takahiro Watanabe, Taro Bando, Yoji Inagaki, Hideaki Shimizu, Yasushi Ida, Toru Asakawa, Koichi Kyuma
o = Asuka Hayazaki / Asuka Ohta (found in Wind Waker HD, Pikmin 3, Wii Fit Plus)
d = Motoi Sakuraba (based on Mario Golf World Tour)
h = unknown (found in Pikmin 2) suspects: Mitsuhiro Hikino, Takahiro Watanabe
i = unknown (found in Wind Waker HD) suspects: Masafumi Kawamura, Taiju Suzuki, Takahiro Watanabe, Taro Bando, Yoji Inagaki, Hideaki Shimizu, Yasushi Ida, Toru Asakawa, Koichi Kyuma
x = ambiguous / purposefully censored (found in Mario Kart Double Dash)
I haven't been able to find any other games with "r" yet, so it could be any Wind Waker / HD staff that doesn't have another assigned letter yet. it is, obviously, likely to be someone with r in their name (Masafumi Kawamura, Takahiro Watanabe, Taro Bando, Toru Asakawa), though that doesn't necessarily have to be the case (like Motoi Sakuraba, assuming that's a legit suffix and not the result of Sakuraba being an external composer not employed by Nintendo).
if there's any other games with r, we might be able to make a guess, or maybe even straight-up confirm who it is if there's only one WW/HD staff member involved with that title.