SS-01: SONIC SUPERSTARS ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK

[PhantomRuby]

I am in shock

[PhantomRuby]

I hate how they grouped together composers and arrangers, even if we know one person arranged someone else's composition (like with Tee Lopes)

[PhantomRuby]

Some thoughts:


We have names for each track, but there is no distinction made between composers and arrangers. On each song, all the artists are put into the metadata as both "Composer" and "Arranger", even when we know this isn't the case (though it fits in with the branding thing they've been doing with the Opening Theme consistently being credited as "Composed & Arranged by Jun Senoue & Tee Lopes").


Based on what Tee Lopes has said regarding composition on the first few tracks, it seems every track with multiple artists lists the composer first, followed by the arranger - except if the arranger is also credited for (additional) composition.

This means that Bridge Island Zone Act1 -> Jun Senoue, Tee Lopes - but Bridge Island Zone Act2 -> Tee Lopes, Jun Senoue.

This does conflict with what Tee said about Super Sonic and Invincibility, as he mentioned he did co-composition on those two tracks, yet Jun's name appears first. This only affects those two tracks, and isn't necessarily relevant to the other tracks.


Combining what we know through official sources, as well as with knowledge from early unused versions of tracks:

- Title Screen
Composed by Jun Senoue
Arranged by Tee Lopes

- Opening Theme
Composed by Jun Senoue
Arranged by Tee Lopes

- Bridge Island Zone Act1
Composed by Jun Senoue (Jun version found in files & part of Credits)
Arranged by Tee Lopes

- Bridge Island Zone Act2
Composed by Jun Senoue & Tee Lopes
Arranged by Tee Lopes

- Bridge Island Zone Act "Fruits"
Composed & Arranged by Rintaro Soma

- Speed Jungle Zone Act1
Composed & Arranged by Tee Lopes

- Speed Jungle Zone Act "Sonic"
Composed & Arranged by Takahiro Kai

- Speed Jungle Zone Act2
Composed & Arranged by Hidenori Shoji

- Sky Temple Zone Act1
Composed by Jun Senoue & Rintaro Soma
Arranged by Rintaro Soma (early Soma arrangement found in files, Jun version part of Credits)

- Pinball Carnival Zone Act1
Composed & Arranged by Rintaro Soma

- Pinball Carnival Zone Act2
Composed & Arranged by Rintaro Soma

- Pinball Carnival Zone Act "Fruits"
Composed & Arranged by Satoshi Oike

- Lagoon City Zone Act1
Composed & Arranged by Rintaro Soma

- Lagoon City Zone Act "Amy"
Composed & Arranged by Takahiro Kai

- Lagoon City Zone Act2
Composed & Arranged by Tee Lopes

- Sand Sanctuary Zone Act1
Composed & Arranged by Tee Lopes

- Press Factory Zone Act1
Composed & Arranged by Jun Senoue

- Press Factory Zone Act2
Composed & Arranged by Jun Senoue

- Press Factory Zone Act "Fruits"
Composed & Arranged by Ryo Fukuda

- Golden Capital Zone Act1
Composed & Arranged by Jun Senoue

- Golden Capital Zone Act "Knuckles"
Composed & Arranged by Jun Senoue

- Golden Capital Zone Act2
Composed & Arranged by Takenobu Mitsuyoshi

- Cyber Station Zone Act1
Composed by Jun Senoue (Jun version found in files & part of Credits)
Arranged by TORIENA (early TORIENA arrangement found in files, is more faithful to Jun's original version)

- Frozen Base Zone Act1
Composed & Arranged by Jun Senoue

- Frozen Base Zone Act "Tails"
Composed & Arranged by Yasuyuki Nagata

- Frozen Base Zone Act2
Composed & Arranged by Hiro

- Egg Fortress Zone Act1
Composed by Jun Senoue
Arranged by TORIENA (early TORIENA arrangement with Jun FM - from a presumed earlier original Jun version - found in files)

- Egg Fortress Zone Act2
Composed & Arranged by TORIENA

- Special Stage
Composed & Arranged by Tee Lopes

- Bonus Stage
Composed & Arranged by iona Takashima

- Boss Battle 1
Composed & Arranged by Jun Senoue

- Boss Battle 2
Composed & Arranged by Jun Senoue

- Boss Battle 3
Composed & Arranged by Jun Senoue

- Boss Battle 4
Composed & Arranged by Takahiro Kai

- Boss Battle 5
Composed & Arranged by Takahiro Kai

- Boss Battle 6
Composed by Jun Senoue & TORIENA
Arranged by TORIENA

- Boss Battle 7
Composed & Arranged by Hiro

- Final Boss Battle 1
Composed & Arranged by Mitsuharu Fukuyama

- Final Boss Battle 2
Composed & Arranged by Hideaki Kobayashi

- True Final Boss Battle
Composed & Arranged by Yuzuru Jinma

- Credits
This one is interesting. It obviously just lists Yuzuru Jinma. Taking into accounts earlier versions, I believe Jun made the original (early) credits medley found in the files (the one with the intro, Bridge Island, Press Factory), and even went on to make a longer version (with intro, Bridge Island, Press Factory, Cyber Station, Sky Temple, Golden Capital, Frozen Base - his compositions) that isn't found in the game's files. I suspect Jinma then made a final version, based on that all-Jun version, adding in Soma and Tee tracks (hence the vastly different production on those), thus being responsible for producing the final version of the medley.

Composed by Jun Senoue, Rintaro Soma, Tee Lopes
Arranged by Yuzuru Jinma (Based on an earlier medley arrangement by Jun Senoue)

- Jingle 1
Composed & Arranged by Jun Senoue

- Jingle 2
Composed & Arranged by Jun Senoue

- Jingle 3
Composed & Arranged by Jun Senoue

- Jingle 4
Composed & Arranged by Jun Senoue

- Battle Mode: Menu
Composed & Arranged by Jun Senoue

- Battle Mode: Race
Composed & Arranged by Yasuyuki Nagata

- Battle Mode: Zap Scrap
Composed & Arranged by Takenobu Mitsuyoshi

- Battle Mode: Survival
This one also requires a little more text. Back when the Battle Mode Mix dropped, this song was listed as "Composed by Tatsuyuki Maeda & Fumio Itoh", but on the release it says "Tatsuyuki Maeda, Fumio Itoh, Teruhiko Nakagawa". Taking the Battle Mode Mix's credit at face-value, combined with the idea of "Composer, Arranger" this album appears to be maintaining, it could be read as:

Composed by Tatsuyuki Maeda & Fumioh Itoh (there is an early version in the files - could be Maeda & Itoh's version. maybe only one of them?)
Arranged by Teruhiko Nakagawa

- Battle Mode: Star Snatcher
Composed & Arranged by Hiro

- Battle Mode: Results
Composed & Arranged by Jun Senoue

- Emerald Power: Avatar
Composed & Arranged by Tae Fujimoto

- Emerald Power: Bullet
Composed & Arranged by Kenji Mizuno

- Emerald Power: Vision
Composed & Arranged by Tae Fujimoto

- Emerald Power: Water
Composed & Arranged by Ryo Fukuda

- Emerald Power: Ivy
Composed & Arranged by Takenobu Mitsuyoshi

- Emerald Power: Slow
Composed & Arranged by Ryo Fukuda

- Emerald Power: Extra
There is an early version of this song with a lead, specifically based on the main melody of the game (Composed by Jun Senoue), and the final, used, version is the same but without the lead. The lack of melody, or maybe they consider the melody too loosely based on the main melody (making it more a reference than an arrangement), probably makes it so they don't consider Jun the composer (latter more likely I think)

Composed & Arranged by Tae Fujimoto

- Emerald Power: Super Sonic
Composed by Jun Senoue
Arranged by Tee Lopes (Tee said he did Co-Composition, but his name is second so idk what's up)

- Invincibility
Composed by Jun Senoue
Arranged by Tee Lopes (same here)

[Enja Hamman]

I was having a look around JASRAC and noticed that Yasuyuki Nagata is the one credited for True Final Boss Battle. It's probably just a mistake, though, especially since him and Yuzuru Jinma would be next to each other alphabetically.

[PhantomRuby]

Originally Posted by Nicolaas Hamman

I was having a look around JASRAC and noticed that Yasuyuki Nagata is the one credited for True Final Boss Battle. It's probably just a mistake, though, especially since him and Yuzuru Jinma would be next to each other alphabetically.

Scared me for a second, most likely a mistake yeah. I'll never forget JASRAC crediting Richard Jacques for the Daytona USA Medley lol