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Old May 11, 2008, 02:30 PM
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It's nearly impossible to find solid information on these, from my experience. I've been trying for a couple of weeks now, but haven't had much luck - what I have found out is fairly insubstantial and probably not news to anyone. So, I'm wondering if anyone around here has more information on them (tracklists and composer credits more specifically, but any information at all would be sweet), or if the lack of information is exactly the reason why these albums haven't appeared on vgmdb yet. I don't like to ask, but I'm at my wit's end!

Just to clarify, the releases I'm referring to are MCMLXC, MCMXCI, Mystery case in Hi!! School!! and Generate. I'm guessing that's all of them, anyway.
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Old May 13, 2008, 02:41 PM
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I poked around a little. There's some information on these sites:

http://www.ne.jp/asahi/4-leaf/kmr/gm/gmetcindex.htm
http://www6.ocn.ne.jp/~diatonic/cd2_right.html

as well as an expired YJA auction with good scans of Mystery Case in Hi!! School!! There is a cat number on the inside scan, but I can't make it out.

http://page5.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/e77994923

Plus a couple of albums for sale:

http://page5.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/e76736620
http://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/99941255

Anyway, I put together everything I found on Mystery case in Hi!! School!! and put up a page:

http://www.vgmdb.net/db/albums.php?id=8445
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Old May 13, 2008, 11:42 PM
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Looks to me like the cat # is F55-1992 .. though that F could also be a P. Either-way, google hasn't got anything that I can see.

Anyway, thanks for putting this up. I knew about the first two sites, but I'm not familiar with any of those composer aliases. Didn't know about the auctions though (or the 'philosophy of sound' release - that seems to be the only page in existence for that one).
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Old May 22, 2008, 08:14 AM
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I got MCMXCI and Generate from a trade a few days back. The mp3s are tagged, but in japanese, and I'm not the most qualified person for proper translation. However I'm fairly certain Hiroshi Miyauchi, Shinji Hosoe, Hayato Matsuo, Hitoshi Sakimoto, Yuzo Koshiro and Takayuki Aihara are amongst the composers on these releases, from a few quick searches. Hopefully of interest:

GENERATE:

01 ???? (TRACK MISSING)
02 光吉 猛修 - Gloove
03 近藤 光彦 - X-Ray
04 真樹 緑 - 真夏のエモーション *
05 荒川 憲一 with Proceed - Moonlight Dance
06 中西 哲一 - Last Fight
07 Mari - Snowcat in the Summer
08 I Am (Masaharu Iwata) - Cipher
09 Gong - Underground
10 Helmesたこやき事務 - THC
11 Miu - Nomen
12 Kid - Snobbism
13 M-Ki - Techno Factory
14 近藤 光彦 - Profanation
15 Napo.Sun / 赤羽野菜開発団 - 夜明けの段々畑

* same as Track 12 on T.O.U.R.S

MCMXCI:

01 細江 慎治 - ラビオサンダーすこぴゅー
02 Chobin - Blue Wind
03 はいああ - Sky Window
04 Kaja - Lovelorn
05 山田 企予子 - Season Off
06 藤井 良彦 & Nekoyo - Sea Sea Sea
07 中田 成憲 - Outer Zone
08 Thomas Brown - 南に急ごう
09 Kid - Class_B
10 宮内 博史 - The Sun
11 Miu - TGD#1
12 古代 祐三 - Tiny Groove
13 炎尾煙 & Chemool - 熱血旋風
14 God - EDD
15 Tenteko - 夏の分校
16 Mari. - 教会にたたずむたぷちゃん
17 Mom 松尾&Ymo.Hs - Nuts
18 永田 英哉 &下山 喜一& 安藤 弘二 - スーパー ザ・ホライズン

No scans of either release unfortunately
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So these credits are from the album tags? I'm a little skeptical about the accuracy, since track 4, the one you said is on TOURS, is credited here to Midori Maki and not Takayuki Aihara. But I went through the names anyway and pulled out the ones I could figure out or had reasonable guesses about.

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GENERATE:

01 ???? (TRACK MISSING)
02 光吉 猛修 - Gloove
03 近藤 光彦 - X-Ray
04 真樹 緑 - 真夏のエモーション *
05 荒川 憲一 with Proceed - Moonlight Dance
06 中西 哲一 - Last Fight
07 Mari - Snowcat in the Summer
08 I Am (Masaharu Iwata) - Cipher
09 Gong - Underground
10 Helmesたこやき事務 - THC
11 Miu - Nomen
12 Kid - Snobbism
13 M-Ki - Techno Factory
14 近藤 光彦 - Profanation
15 Napo.Sun / 赤羽野菜開発団 - 夜明けの段々畑
02 光吉 猛修: Takenobu Mitsuyoshi
03 近藤 光彦: Mitsuhiko Kondo
04 真樹 緑: Midori Maki
05 荒川 憲一 with Proceed: Kenichi Arakawa with Proceed
06 中西 哲一: Tetsukazu Nakanishi
07 Mari: I'd guess Mari Yamaguchi
10 Helmesたこやき事務: Helmes Takoyaki Work?
14 近藤 光彦: Mitsuhiko Kondo again
15 Napo.Sun / 赤羽野菜開発団: Napo.Sun / Akabane Vegetable Development Group? Maybe like crop growing or genetic modification.

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MCMXCI:

01 細江 慎治 - ラビオサンダーすこぴゅー
02 Chobin - Blue Wind
03 はいああ - Sky Window
04 Kaja - Lovelorn
05 山田 企予子 - Season Off
06 藤井 良彦 & Nekoyo - Sea Sea Sea
07 中田 成憲 - Outer Zone
08 Thomas Brown - 南に急ごう
09 Kid - Class_B
10 宮内 博史 - The Sun
11 Miu - TGD#1
12 古代 祐三 - Tiny Groove
13 炎尾煙 & Chemool - 熱血旋風
14 God - EDD
15 Tenteko - 夏の分校
16 Mari. - 教会にたたずむたぷちゃん
17 Mom 松尾&Ymo.Hs - Nuts
18 永田 英哉 &下山 喜一& 安藤 弘二 - スーパー ザ・ホライズン
01 細江 慎治: Shinji Hosoe
02 Chobin: Tetsukazu Nakanishi
03 はいああ: I don't know who this is, but it reads as "haiaa"/"higher"
04 Kaja: Masahiro Kajihara
05 山田 企予子: I'm not positive how to read this, but the name appears on this Yahoo! Japan Auctions page for the album with 水月陵 (Ryo Mizutsuki) in parenthesis next to it, so it might be an alias or a vocalist.
06 藤井 良彦 & Nekoyo: Yoshihiko Fujii & Nekoyo
10 宮内 博史: Hiroshi Miyauchi
12 古代 祐三: Yuzo Koshiro
16 Mari.: Mari Yamaguchi again, if I were to guess
17 Mom 松尾&Ymo.Hs: Ymo.Hs is an alias for Hitoshi Sakimoto. Mom 松尾 might be Hayato Matsuo, since 松尾 is his last name.
18 永田 英哉 &下山 喜一& 安藤 弘二: 永田 英哉 is Hideya Nagata, but I don't know who the other two are.
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Old May 22, 2008, 11:50 PM
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Perhaps there is some sort of rational explanation for why Midori Maki is credited rather than Aihara, although I can't possibly think what at this point... I agree, it's pretty dubious. These tracklists probably shouldn't go up without proper confirmation from scans (especially since GENERATE is missing a track anyway), but who knows when that'll happen.

Anyway, cheers. The rest of the names are pretty much as I expected. Would love to know what the tracknames read too.
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What I provided to you is from a confidential but usually reliable Japanese source. If you ever do find a better rip of Generate or MCMXCI, please tell me though.
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I'd venture that 山田企予子 is read as Kiyoko Yamada. It's most probably an alias for Ryo Mizutsuki, since the games listed after her name all involve Ryo Mizutsuki as composer.

Freedbtest has this tracklist for MCMLXC:

Code:
1	3:18	Hightway Night
2	3:47	Challenger
3	3:14	Midorix
4	4:04	Flying Temple
5	4:00	観光団体の逆襲
6	4:02	草原を風が渡る
7	4:01	アーリアン1
8	3:03	Midnight Illusion
9	3:24	Scrap's Beat
10	3:33	White Illusion
11	2:06	TeChNOiD
12	3:08	シルエットドリーム
13	2:48	Prepossession
14	2:20	Space Fight
15	2:54	Revolution
16	2:07	The Volcanic Bomb
17	4:02	Super Scheme
18	10:58	100yen Disk MUSIC's
Takahiro Yonemura blogs about the early days (Synergy, Troubadour, Myu-Recordings, Unison Label)
http://chemool.fc2web.com/diary/d0708.html#2007/08/24

Which leads us to this page:
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/WizardOfPSG/20060117

With decent res scans of MCMLXC. Hurray!

"Tama" is an early nickname for Shinji Hosoe, which is confirmed in his own blog.
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Old May 24, 2008, 07:45 AM
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Ahhh great, a nice bit of investigation there Gigablah never would have found that stuff myself.

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What I provided to you is from a confidential but usually reliable Japanese source. If you ever do find a better rip of Generate or MCMXCI, please tell me though.
Sure thing, and if I ever come across the aforemention MCMLXC, I'll also send it your way.

The guy that sent you those rips -- does he own physical copies himself? Would be great to get scans and verification on this stuff.
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It is confirmed here http://www.j99.net/sb.cgi?eid=177 that Midori Maki is an alias of Takayuki Aihara.

Also, the "missing track" on GENERATE is a data track. It contains the folders CG, GAME, MOVIE, MUSIC, PHOTO, SOUND, SYNERGY, TEXT, TOOL.
Unfortunately most of these tracks I cannot even open (like the photos, even though the format is .jpg). Well, this was the pre-Win95 era and I'm rather clueless how to evaluate the information inside these folders. I'm pretty sure it's stuff for your NEC PC-98. There are even some Final Fantasy arrangements in there but it's stored in FMP/PMD music files.

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nice, that clears a few of my queries up.

yeah, it must be a game. i'm not sure why you're unable to open the files... you may have some joy asking on the hcs64 forums, the guys there know quite a lot about this sort of thing... usually. no guarantee though.
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