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See this thread for general notes about what I'm trying to do with these albums: https://vgmdb.net/forums/showthread.php?t=6420.


This is the first album which gives game-by-game composer information. Or, at least, it's the first one we have scans for which show that information. Most of them are pretty tricky to read on the CD scan, so I used this as a reference: http://homepage1.nifty.com/c-akimo/m...ag_l/mag05.htm (dead link now, sorry).

01: Dragon Quest V
Listed composer: Koichi Sugiyama
http://vgmdb.net/album/1283 also duh

02~04: Axelay
Listed composer: Kukeiha Club (it only says 矩形波倶楽部, doesn't go with the full Konami Kukeiha Club name)
"Effect & Ending-1: AKI / Music Compose: Taro / ST2·Remix: M.C.ADA" - https://youtu.be/xz82qeaWd_k?t=162
EDIT (2021-03-25): Added actual in-game credits for this because the OST doesn't specify composition

05~09: Lennus
Listed composer: Kohei Tanaka
"Original Score: Kohei Tanaka" - http://www.vgmuseum.com/end/snes/d/pq_2.htm.

Akihiko Mori worked on a few of Tanaka's SNES scores in a technical role, Lennus II (sound design and performance) and Bounty Sword (sound design). As such, the "Morimoaly Grand Orchestra" (this should be "Morimori Grand Orchestra," the Japanese is モリもりグランドオーケストラ) credited for music performace should be him too. His roles in these games are occasionally listed as arrangement, like on the Bounty Sword OST. He is not credited with arrangement here though, at least on the disc.

Sound effects are by Don, a guy who worked on other Copya System games (Galaxy Robo, Lock On?). A few Japanese sites have started saying that he was also Akihiko Mori, including Mori's Wikipedia article, but I remain skeptical of this without sourcing. EDIT (2011-03-23): See below for sources provided by VRC-7!

10~11: Sonic Blast Man
Listed composer: ZUNTATA
"Sound: Zuntata, Ishikawa" - https://www35.atwiki.jp/sfcall/pages/803.html. The SNES soundtrack was mostly original (as it was a mostly original game, very different from the original arcade game), and these tracks are original compositions.

12~14: Garou Densetsu
Listed composer: Shinsekai Gakkyoku Zatsugidan
Track-by-track credits for the original arcade tunes provided by the liner notes on the OST (thanks Dag!): http://vgmdb.net/album/746.
SNES: "Sound: Shrimp H." - http://chibarei.blog.jp/gsl/sfc/garo/garo.html. This may be Hiroshi Ebihara (ebi/海老 = Shrimp, hara = H.), but I'm not sure he was active this early, since the first credits I could confirm were the MIDI Power Pro stuff starting in 1997. This Shrimp H. guy worked with Kennosuke Suemura on the SNES conversion of Garou Densetsu 2, and Suemura collaborated with Ebihara's company USP a few times later. EDIT (2011-03-23): Hiroshi Ebihara did in fact work on some SNES games, credited as "Ebiten" and "Ebisu." One of those games was a collaboration with Kennosuke Suemura. Seems solid.
EDIT (2018-08-05): These songs are actually the Neo-Geo original music and not from the SNES port.

15: Kinnikuman
Listed composer: TOGASHI NORIHIKO
Togashi listed the game in his old works list: http://web.archive.org/web/200301011.../txt/work.html.

16~18: Lord Monarch
Listed composers: Falcom Sound Team J.D.K. / E.S.C.

SNES remake of a PC-98 game. Track 16 is an arrangement of a song from the original game, and the other two songs are original compositions.

The original PC-98 version doesn't have credits, but the update Advanced Lord Monarch credits music to Mieko Ishikawa, Masaaki Kawai, and Atsushi Shirakawa: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm14656138 (7:46, screenshot). I'm not sure if this actually indicates anything about the original music or not.

SNES: "Sound: 大島俊一 (Shunichi Oshima?); Sound Coordinator: Takashi Kutsukake; Sound Composer: Falcom Sound Team J.D.K." - http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm8845179 (1:38, screenshots: [1] [2] [3]). E.S.C. isn't listed. Perhaps it's a company one or both of those first two guys belonged to?

19: Shinchou Kouki
Listed composer: Masamichi Iwasaki (岩崎 正道)
Name reading confirmed through the credits of Bogey: Dead 6? https://www.mobygames.com/game/plays...dead-6/credits

This game is often referred to as "Nobunaga Kouki," but the box and cartridge display the reading as "Shinchou": http://blogimg.goo.ne.jp/user_image/...9ac196d42d.jpg

20~22: Return of Double Dragon
Listed composer: Kazunaka Yamane
"Sound Composer: Kazunaka Yamane" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJD1s-_wd0o&t=1m00s. "Sound Designer" in the Japanese credits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQsdaGJkuyY&t=53m46s.

23~27: Aguri Suzuki F-1 Super Driving
Listed composer: Katsuhiro Hayashi
MobyGames also lists him as composer: http://www.mobygames.com/game/snes/r...-racer/credits.

28: Great Strategy Expert
Listed composer: Akiko Hashimoto
OST: http://vgmdb.net/album/4180. No composer breakdown between Hashimoto and Hirahara in the scans we have, but this disc gives this track to Hashimoto. EDIT (2016-07-11): There is a breakdown in the booklet, and it does credit Hashimoto for this track.
The game title is romanized as "Daisenryaku Expert" and is often referred to by that name, but the translation "Great Strategy Expert" appears on the box, cartridge, and OST.

29~31: SD Kidou Senshi Gundam
Listed composer: Studio Kumatarou
I've looked up this game before, and it lists Sabakuma Yuki as responsible for sound or music, can't remember which. I unfortunately can't provide proof, because the video is now inaccessible. It was this one: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm7945259 (20:47).

This GMCL offshoot equates Sabakuma Yuki with Studio Kumatarou: http://www16.atwiki.jp/gmclw/pages/61.html. I don't see why this is necessarily the case, as opposed to them just being a part of it.

32~35: SUPER PANG
Listed composer: Alfh Lyra

Arcade: "Composer: Takaoka" - https://www.arcade-history.com/?n=su...detail&id=2737. I'd guess this is the same guy as the "H. Takaoka" in Adventure Quiz 2: Hatena? no Daibouken: http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=hat...detail&id=1093.
EDIT (2018-11-22): Forgot to edit this ages ago, but at some point we learned that Hiromitsu Takaoka was a Capcom composer.

SNES: "Sound Designer: Anie, Ojal" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eudlgPPX6y0&t=4m10s. The game also credits Takaoka, the original arcade sound designer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eudlgPPX6y0&t=3m52s.

Track 32 is credited as being the round select theme from the arcade version of the game, and 33 presumably the one from the SNES version. However, they are both tunes from the SNES version. Track 33 indeed is the game selection theme (16 Select Game in the SPC set at SNESmusic.org), which is an arrangement of the same theme from the arcade version. Track 32, however, is a stage theme (15 The Caribbean Sea), and it's also an original composition entirely. Good going, Tokuma Shoten.

Tracks 34 and 35 are also original pieces.

36: Song Master
Listed composers: Tsuyoshi Tanaka, Koji Abe
"Music Composer: Tsuyoshi Tanaka <JAM>, Cozy <JAM>" - http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm13695151 (16:49, screenshot).

The album lists both Tanaka and Abe for this one piece. It may be that both are only listed because they composed the game, and only one really composed this track. The publisher folks knew that Akiko Hashimoto specifically composed track 28 (see the Great Strategy Expert section above), so they may have had specific composer info for this one too.

37: Teitoku no Ketsudan
Listed composer: Hiroshi Miyagawa
confirmed heeah

38: Super Daikoukai Jidai
Listed composer: Yoko Kanno
Conveniently confirmed on exactly the same album as the previous track!

39: Assault Suits Valken
Listed composer: Opus Studio Inc. ((株)オーパス)
All music was done by Masanao Akahori: http://vgmdb.net/album/5285.

The album specifically lists the company Opus (that's what the "(株)" means, shorthand for kabushiki gaisha). I have a hunch that "Opus"/"Opasu" was never truly an alias of Akahori, but was misinterpreted as one in cases like this where the company was credited for something he did.

40~45: Super Mario Kart
Listed composer: Soyo Oka
It's already known that Oka did the whole soundtrack and Taro Bando didn't write any music: https://vgmdb.net/forums/showthread.php?p=25197. Oka is also the only one credited on this album!