Akihiro Uchida's mini bio says his work is related to music. He also mentions meeting Imo (Hirotomi Imoto), "Mari-san" (Mariko?) and Ao (?), who worked with Ackey. Good bet on him.
Also, I finally found the Wild Ambition credits and Yassun is there, if there was still any doubts on him being Yasuhiro Naka.
Random tidbits probably nobody cares for:
- SHA-V is read "しゃぶ/shabu" (stimulant/drug). Comes from "麻薬中毒/drug addiction", since 麻-中-=Asanaka. He's been working in mobile and pachislot.
- In Tanaka's old blog (not around anymore unfortunately) he said (IIRC) back then all sound teams had their own name (Alph Lyra, KKC...) so they choose one too. The runner up was "Neo Sound Orchestra" (I guess that's why at least one album uses it), Tanaka proposed "Ethanol" (uh).
- Also on another of Tanaka's posts, back then it was popular to use "surname first kanji + py" for PN: Kitapy and Yamapy-1 (Yamapy-2 was originally Tate Norio, but he changed it).
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This person says SNKP replied him there is no KOF12 OST because no publisher is interested. orz
- Kyoko Naka is teaching piano.
- Yamapy has worked on quite a bunch of things after SNK and is in a band, see his site.
- Brother Hige did the SNK intro voices ("violent fighting to come again...") and similar samples included in certain tracks.
- SHA-V talks in his
blog about the making of these tracks: ESAKA?, Dear Falling Angel, ESAKA FOREVER, Tears, Good-Bye ESAKA (his technique is to make a good intro to draw the listener in).
- In a SS4 liner notes SHA-V says he worked on 'flame' characters like Billy Kane, Kyo and Kazuki.
- Also in his blog, he comments Kazuki from SS4 and Rhythmic Hallucination originated from the same rejected song (so I understand he did both).
- In her site, Kyo-chan says she did: Kaze no Allegory (Yagami song); in Last Blade 2 composed (except bonus track) and was in charge of all. Also helped in (piano parts, orchestration, etc): Mirthless (KOF97 ending), Mai's song, Last Blade 1/2
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This (mirror) old SNK blog about KOF2000 development, I think identifies KONNY as the leader.
- NEO GEO Logo = YAMAPY (from
Yassun)
- Coments from The Rhythm of Fighters (each is composer + arranger)
Toshikazu Tanaka: Raiden the Brave [Yuusha Raiden]
HIYA! (Takushi Hiyamuta): Living on the Deck
sha-v: "ESAKA?"
zoe: Control Crisis
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From Kyo-chan's site: