Shooting Tkool 95 (#14207)

[Blitz Lunar]

Hi, I wanted to collect a little information together about the music in this elusive Japan-only software.

In common with other iterations of the Game Tsukuru series published by ASCII, this software includes stock music in midi format. The midis are somewhat inconsistent with regards to midi reset messages, production style and internal metadata, however the metadata does reveal some interesting information; Unison Sound Team is confirmed to be responsible for roughly half of the songs, with Shinji Orito and Tsutomu Yoshizawa (YET11) being named explicitly for one song each. It is possible (probably likely) that they were also responsible for the others, but there is no way to confirm this. Another mysterious artist called H Suginouchi is also named for one song, but I cannot find any trace of them on the web whatsoever.

Here is a breakdown of all of the sequences included and what metadata they contain, if any. I have YouTube uploads for some of them recorded with Roland SCVA, which are also linked.

• ATTACK00.MID - Composed by YET11 (Tsutomu Yoshizawa)
• ATTACK01.MID - Composed by Shinji Orito
• BATTLE.MID - "DEEP STRIDE" - Metadata has conflicting composer info, "H Suginouchi" and "いち" (Ichi), the latter may be Naoki Ishida but I am not confident.
• BGM01.MID
• BGM02.MID
• GM-1.MID
• GM-2.MID
• GM-3.MID
• GM-4.MID
• POP01.MID - "ぷっつんポインビー１" ("PUTTSUN POINBI-1") - Composed by Unison Sound Team
• POP02.MID - "ぷっつんポインビー２" ("PUTTSUN POINBI-2") - Composed by Unison Sound Team
• POP03.MID - "ぷっつんポインビー３" ("PUTTSUN POINBI-3") - Composed by Unison Sound Team
• PPB_GM01.MID (duplicate of POP01.MID)
• PPB_GM02.MID (duplicate of POP02.MID)
• PPB_GM03.MID (duplicate of POP03.MID)
• STAGE01.MID (duplicate of BGM01.MID)
• STAGE02.MID (duplicate of BGM02.MID)
• UNKNOWN.MID - "- 格闘ゲーム曲 -" ("- Fighting game music -")

I'd love to gather more information about these songs if possible. I wonder if any of the Unison folks are available to contact, somehow, and would be able to say more about it...