TIM-SFC04: Super Famicom Magazine Vol.4 Special Supplement

[CHz]

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


01~05: Captain Tsubasa III
"Music Composer: Shake Keijin; Music: Kajiya Shitamachi, Machine Rio, Rikarin Date, & Kaorin Kyu" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9CfDFK8uR4&t=27m13s. Kajiya Shitamachi is a known alias of Ryuichi Nitta (his current music production company is Kajiya Music!). Unconfirmed guesses for three of the other four: Shake Keijin = Keiji Yamagishi, Rikarin Date = Rika Shigeno, Kaorin Kyu = Kaori Nakabai.
EDIT (2012-08-09): Captain Tsubasa III is listed as one of Nakabai's works on her DeciaStyle profile: http://decica.jp/pc/creators.html (dead link now, sorry). So she's definitely "Kaorin Kyu."
EDIT (2012-12-08): Keiji Yamagishi says he did not write music for this game, only advised: http://koopa.tv/a-conversation-with-keiji-yamagishi/. He also says that Rika Shigeno composed for Radia Senki, a game where "Rikarin" is credited, so there we go.

06~09: Parodius Da!
Ugh, Parodius soundtracks are always a mess. Each of these four tracks is a short jingle followed by an original main melody written for the arcade version of the game. Tracks 6 & 8 share one main melody, and tracks 7 & 9 share another.

Track 6's jingle is an arrangement of the round start theme from TwinBee. Composition is commonly credited to Shigeru Fukutake and Yoshinori Sasaki, but I have zero idea where this comes from.

Track 7's jingle is an arrangement of "Beginning of the History" from Gradius. Higashino did Gradius by herself: https://vgmdb.net/forums/showthread.php?p=26249.

Track 8's jingle I'm 99% sure is an arcade original composition.

Track 9's jingle is an arrangement of the startup theme from Antarctic Adventure. No clue who did this.

Arcade: "Sound: -Cameo- Matano, -Dokuo- Umeno" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYgYHffJ6aQ&t=34m25s. Both of these people may in fact be Kazuki Muraoka, who is widely reported as being responsible for the game. EDIT (2012-01-20): According to Parodius da!'s liner notes, both are in fact Kazuki Muraoka, who is just being silly. Thanks, Dag!

SNES: "Sound Designer: K. Uehara, H. Eto" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Flf3lQSuB5E&t=38m27s. Hideyuki Eto started at Konami; his full name appears in the SNES version of Tokimeki Memorial: https://www35.atwiki.jp/sfcall/pages/582.html.

Criminy.

10~13: Light Fantasy
"Sound: Mitiharu Hasuya, Osamu Kasai, Turuchan" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbfED5oA0bs&t=44m28s. Turuchan is Takashi Tsurutani. These three worked together a lot: http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index....tion_(credits).

14~15: Kouryuu Densetsu Villgust
thank god a game with an OST

16: Prince of Persia
"Music: Toshiya Yamanaka (Arsys), Tetsuya Nakano (Arsys)" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeI4-G9Y-dM&t=5m04s.

17~21: SD Gundam X
"Sound: Tomoyuki Hamada, Masas." - http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm7960618 (7:17, screenshot).

22~23: Hiryuu no Ken S
"Music: Eiji Miyabi" - http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm5670886 (10:57, screenshot). This staff roll is from the "Hyper Version" update of the game with identical music.
"Eiji Miyabi" is a name that Akinori Sawa occasionally used. Example: music for the N64 game Flying Dragon (飛龍の拳ツイン) was done by Eiji Miyabi (YouTube), and Sawa claimed it on his old works list (http://web.archive.org/web/200812021...tml/iam_j.html).

24~27: T.M.N.T. IV
The scans just say "T.M.N.T.," but the game is definitely Turtles in Time. Both tracks are arrangements of tunes from the original arcade version.
Arcade: "Music Composer: M. Izumi" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJR-rX_oi4c&t=3m32s.
SNES: "Sound Designer: K. Uehara, H. Uekoh" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hszeW_tEKPw&t=1m18s.

28~30: ASTRAL BOUT
"Sound Staff: Takuo Uchida, Yukiyoshi Fujimoto, Jun Otsuki" - http://gdri.smspower.org/credits/misc.txt. Uchida's the only one of the three I could confirm has composed anything (Depth Fantasia). Otsuki was a director at King Records, and Fujimoto did a lot of synth operation.

31~33: The Addams Family
"Music & Sound Effects by Jonathan Dunn" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP8In1VmN4A&t=5m37s. Vic Mizzy wrote the theme song from the TV show, which is covered in track 31 and referenced in track 32.

34~36: Cameltry
Arcade: "Sound: OGR, Yack" - http://chibarei.blog.jp/gsl/ac/cameltry/ctry.html (dead link sorry). This is tricky because the special thanks list is formatted exactly like a second list of game credits, separated by role. The first sound section credits OGR (Hisayoshi Ogura) and Yack (Yasuhisa Watanabe), and the second one after the thanks header lists Mar (Masahiko Takaki) and K. Umino (Kazuko Umino).
SNES: "Sound: Zuntata" - http://www35.atwiki.jp/sfcall/pages/314.html.
EDIT (2018-07-19): Despite the in-game credits, Pinch-Punch says they did all the music on their site, and they did the comments on the original soundtrack too. Likewise, Zuntata's recent digital release of the Cameltry soundtrack credits them too.

37~38: Koushien 2
not a single clue

39~41: Super F1 Circus
"Music_Composer: Nyorita_Peter_Lllch Ogawa" - http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index....rcus_.28SFC.29. This name is occasionally abbreviated as "N.P.I.OGA," but the "Lllch" with three L's isn't a typo on GDRI's part, as the credits of Super F-1 Circus Limited clearly spell it that way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynXJTu4ySdo&t=1m27s. Perhaps the middle names are a butchered "Peter Ilyich," as in Tchaikovsky?
EDIT (2016-03-16): Hiroshi Ogawa worked on other F1 Circus games, like F1 Circus Special for the TG-CD (sound credits at 16:10), so N.P.I.OGA should be him.

42: Ultimate Football
"Sound Composer: Megumi Maz-ura" - http://gdri.smspower.org/credits/aicomcredits.txt. Megumi Matsuura worked on other Sammy games, cf. Viewpoint. I listened to the SPC set for this game on a lark because of the amazing title screen, and "Half Time" is the worst/greatest thing I have ever heard in my entire life.

43: PGA Tour Golf
Arrangement of the title theme from the original Genesis version.
Genesis: "Audio: Rob Hubbard" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewaZXOE8dwI&t=0m18s.
SNES: "Sound/Music: Rob Hubbard" - https://www.mobygames.com/game/snes/...r-golf/credits.

44: Super Dunk Shot
"Music and Sounds: Kingsley Thurber, Paul Webb, Mark Ganus" - https://www35.atwiki.jp/sfcall/pages/1153.html
EDIT (2018-07-31): Updated with credits.

45~46: Yuuyu no Quiz de GOGO
Both tunes are arrangements of tracks from the original arcade version.
Arcade: "Music: Tamayo Kawamoto" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKxfy-XLTsU&t=12m36s
SNES: "Sound: Tamayo Kawamoto, Kiyohiro Sada, Masako Inata" - http://chibarei.blog.jp/gsl/sfc/yuuyunoquiz/yuuyu.html (dead link sorry).

47: Song Master
"Music Composer: Tsuyoshi Tanaka <JAM>, Cozy <JAM>" - http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm13695151 (16:49, screenshot). Cozy should be Koji Abe, who worked with Tsuyoshi Tanaka at Japan Art Media (JAM) on several games, like the Aretha series. EDIT (2011-03-16): TIM-SFC05 also has a track from Song Master, and it credits both Tanaka and Abe with composition, so Cozy is definitely Abe.

48: F1 GRAND PRIX
"Music Composer: Naoki Itamura" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWKwhS-y0wk&t=8m58s. All four tracks in this medley were original to the SNES game.

49~53: Street Fighter II
Yoko Shimomura composed all of the original arcade music except Sagat's theme and the new challenger and round start jingles, which were done by Abe: http://gamemusic.pl/en/my-japonczycy...obalny-zasieg/. None of those themese are present, so this is all Shimomura.
SNES: "Sound Design: Yoshihiro 'Oyabun' Sakaguchi, Youko 'P♪' Shimomura, Tatsuya 'Anie' Nishimura, Isao 'Oyaji' Abe" - https://www35.atwiki.jp/sfcall/pages/608.html. Sakaguchi and Nishimura had mainly non-composition sound roles, so the music was probably just Shimomura and Abe. They may have even handled their own compositions only.
EDIT (2011-05-23): These specific pieces are reused in SFIIT, which credits Sakaguchi with sound design and Nishimura with sound effects: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oVgFVQDY8M&t=1m20s. Since they weren't responsible for music there, that should mean they weren't responsible for the original SFII versions either, leaving only Shimomura and Abe.
EDIT (2021-03-25): I changed my mind on this; Nishimura and Abe not being credited with music in SFIIT doesn't necessarily tell us anything about the music that was reused from SFII, just that they presumably didn't work on any of the music that was done for SFIIT (of which there was at least one song).

54~57: Maka Maka
"Sound Artist: Mitsuyasu Tomohisa" - http://gdri.smspower.org/credits/misc.txt. (Masahiro) Kusunoki is later credited for sound effects, so that should be good for music.
EDIT (2020-05-19): The tracks here aren't original game audio, but are arranged (or are the original versions before downconverting to SNES). Thanks Aifread

[Myrkul]

Price of the CD is wrong.. 400 yen is quite cheap.
I see 1480 Yens on the magazine cover.

Though i think all the CDs should be "not for sale".

[CHz]

Yeah, that price is definitely off. The first magazine sold for ¥1280, according to its cover, so they were never near ¥400. The ¥400 price is pretty common on our album entries. I wonder where the hell that came from?

[kyubihanyou]

For Street Fighter II, I put Shimomura and Abe as arrangers to emphasize how that console version is different from others. If this were the Genesis version of Special Champion Edition, I would have have put Setsuo Yamamoto and Tadashi Joukagi, and if it were the TG16 version of SCE, I would have put Mari Yamaguchi and Isao Abe. Similarly, Yuki Iwai arranging Four Devas Ending for the SNES version of SFII Turbo in lieu of Shimomura alone should count as a justification for incorporating the SNES release's credits.

Again:
-Yoshihiro Sakaguchi was just the Sound Software Designer for both SNES releases of SFII and SFIIT, as proven by the more detailed SNES SFIIT credits
-Tatsuya Nishimura was just the Sound Effect Designer for both SNES releases of SFII and SFIIT, as proven by the more detailed SNES SFIIT credits

Bare this in mind when you get to Vol. 11.