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Originally Posted by VRC-7
I'm pretty sure it's him. He's credited as "Don" on Shien's Revenge, and the programmer on Scotland Yard for the Game Boy is "A.Mori."
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Someone is credited as Don on Shien's Revenge. Why does he have to be Mori and not a distinct person? That's what I'm trying to say.
Music and sound effects are credited to M. Hirasawa, Tsukushi, and Don. The first two should be Michiya Hirasawa and Tsukushi Sasaki of Mint, so Don was probably, though not guaranteed, part of Mint too. I don't see how that shows Don was Mori, unless Mint provably only ever had three sound guys.
Shounen Ninja Sasuke credits sound design to Don and 森森ROCK'N BAND (Morimori Rock'n Band). Since Mori in all likelihood worked on Paladin's Quest as Morimori Grand Orchestra, a game where Don is credited, he's probably Morimori Rock'n Band too (though this logic chain is getting a bit tenuous). Don and Morimori are credited
separately for the same thing. It's rare, but occasionally people are credited under multiple aliases. Or, the Morimori Rock'n Band thing may just be a cute "performance" credit that isn't really a person. But Don and Mori being separate people also seems to me to be a perfectly plausible explanation.
The Scotland Yard credit seems a little questionable. Mori probably has a Copya credit with Paladin's Quest, so it could definitely be him too, but being credited as a straight programmer seems a bit out of place for his career. The game doesn't have any other programming credits besides him, and there's a separate music composition credit, so it seems that programming is exactly what A. Mori did. Are you aware of any other non-sound programming credits for Akihiko?
Basically, the Don = Akihiko Mori thing is interesting, and the timelines roughly match up (Don's last work was around 1994, which is about when Mori's activities with Mint started), but I don't really see anything that convincingly shows Don is or is not Mori.
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Originally Posted by VRC-7
It probably is Ebihara.
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I'm not really sure why I never thought of this before, but I checked out some old versions of USP website, and the earliest archived versions have some staff profiles. And, wouldn't you know it, Ebihara's does in fact list some SNES games:
http://replay.waybackmachine.org/199...sp/ebihara.htm.
The profile doesn't say what he did in any of the games, but there are two Ebi's in the sound department. At the very least, this does substantiate that he was working on SNES games as early as 1992 (Shounen Ashibe), so him being Shrimp H. is looking pretty good now.
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Originally Posted by VRC-7
It looks like Suemura was with USP before he started Studio PJ (see Super Bonk).
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I've suspected that Suemura was an early part of USP before he started Studio PJ, 1994–1996 or so with definite fuzziness, but I've never been able to resolve that to my satisfaction. That Super Bonk thing is interesting, I don't think I've ever noticed before that the game does credit USP for overall sound production.
The other big lead is Kabuki Klash, which doesn't explicitly credit USP, but everyone else besides maybe Hiroaki Shiraishi (who may have just worked on the vocal theme, since he's not in the game's credits) are definitely USP. It may not mean anything, because special thanks are just special thanks, but the soundtrack for Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer thanks USP, and Suemura is the only composer for the game who wasn't a Technos employee:
http://vgmdb.net/album/2352.
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Originally Posted by VRC-7
Speaking of Studio PJ, do you know where the name "P.E. Young" on the Studio PJ profile came from? I see that name on Power Rangers for the Genesis.
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He's also credited for arrangement in Super Robot Wars W, along with Osamu Aoki, Ryo Kasai, and Tatsuo Nishizono:
http://staffroll.6.ql.bz/ai/W.html. Studio PJ is credited for overall sound production.
Potentially very interesting: Ebihara's old USP profile also lists the Genesis Power Rangers game. Game credits sound to P.E. Young and Ken-chan (Suemura seems likely. He doesn't list the game on his works list, but it's incomplete.). Again, his profile doesn't ever say what specifically he did, but perhaps Ebihara is also P.E. Young? I couldn't find any other shred of evidence connecting them other than this.