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Old Mar 6, 2011, 11:33 PM
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These Super Famicom Magazine album entries are a complete wreck for a variety of reasons (album titles, inconsistent translations, bad/incomplete composer credits, game title wonkiness, etc.). I've been putting off cleaning them up for ages, but now's as good a time as any.

Some general notes:

Only the first seven albums are titled Vol. 1-7. From the eighth on, they're titled by the month they were released. This means that, if we use the literal album titles, we'll have a couple with the exact same titles because they were released in the same month, a year apart (TIM-SFC08/21 and 09/22). I haven't really figured out yet how to handle that.

The tracklists don't actually include the game titles in the track titles.

The CDs were all enclosed with magazines, and at least one (TIM-SFC09) includes game-by-game composer credits. That album is the only one we have scans for, but based on that it's likely that a few other albums in the series, if not all of them, also have credits. A few sites like this one have credits for additional albums, but they're all just random internet sites so reliability is unconfirmed.

Regardless of whether or not a game's whole sound staff is linked to an album for a couple of tracks (OH THE DRAMA), I think it's important that it's clear when someone is credited because it's confirmed they composed that track and when someone is listed because we don't know who composed the track and are listing the whole sound staff. I've been doing that recently for doujin albums ("Composer unknown, game music by xxx," etc.), and I'll be doing that with these.

I'll try to source the hell out of these things in the discussion threads. Feel free to correct my errors and add credits I couldn't find!


Alright, let's get started!

01~05: Final Fantasy IV
duh

06~08: Chohmakaimura
"Music Composer: Mari" - https://www35.atwiki.jp/sfcall/pages/457.html. Romanization appears as "Chohmakaimura" on the game box: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/snes/5...s/images/13749.
EDIT (2020-11-12): The tracks here aren't original game audio, but are arranged (or are the original versions before downconverting to SNES).

09: Ganbare Goemon: Yukihime Kyushutsu Emaki
Kazuhiko Uehara and Haruko Ueko are credited as "sound craftsmen" in the Japanese version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqoqmFRAVz4&t=52m49s) and just with "sound" in the English one. The music was apparently mostly, if not all, done by Ueko: https://vgmdb.net/forums/showthread.php?p=24742.
EDIT (2017-03-01): Ueko says he did all music: https://vgmdb.net/forums/showthread.php?p=78977

10~12: Mobile Suit Gundam F91
"Sound Compose: Nandemo Noririn" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYI95mujOg4&t=8m02s. Norihiko Togashi lists the game in his profile: http://nj-pop.jp/profile-nori.html.

13~14: Area 88
http://vgmdb.net/album/3603. "STAGE 2" is "Aviation Division," and "STAGE1" is "Canyon." Both are original compositions for the SNES version.
EDIT (2020-10-30): The tracks here aren't original game audio, but are arranged (or are the original versions before downconverting to SNES).

15: Dungeon Master
http://vgmdb.net/album/7659. Part of track 2, composed by Hikoshi Hashimoto.

16~17: HYPER ZONE
Jun Ishikawa is commonly credited for composition, but I only found out recently that the credits are just a list of names and roles aren't specified! Here are the credits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlP0Du-Jj1c&t=2m04s. The only confirmed sound guys are Jun Ishikawa and Hiroaki Suga, who by this time had moved from sound to direction and programming. So, it's likely that Ishikawa was the sole composer.
EDIT (2018-03-22): Hirokazu Ando worked on this game too: https://web.archive.org/web/20150626...ob/job_04.html. He is probably "EEE H A."

18: Otogirisou
"Composer: Chiyoko Mitsumata" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwHZhMbcGr0&t=8m32s.

19~20: Battle Dodgeball
I couldn't find any end credits for the game, but Norihiko Togashi listed the game on his old works list: http://web.archive.org/web/200301011.../txt/work.html. I don't know if there were any other composers besides him.

21~22: Pro Soccer
Composer reported by SNESmusic.org as Kazuo Sawa. I couldn't verify this.
EDIT (2017-03-01): "Music: Kazuo Sawa" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcOva_vfwlA&t=0m58s

23~25: SUPER R-TYPE
"Music Composer: Charlie Y.K, Hiya, Hiroshi" - http://www35.atwiki.jp/sfcall/pages/437.html. Hiya is Takushi Hiyamuta, who worked for Irem before leaving with the folks who formed Nazca. Charlie Y.K is allegedly Yasuhiro Kawakami, but this doesn't seem confirmed to me. Hiroshi is often reported as "Hiroshi Kimura," but every credit I've been able to verify is only to "Hiroshi" so I don't know where the family name comes from.

26: Gradius III
"Sound Editor: K. Muraoka, K. Uehara, H. Ueko, Y. Morimoto" - http://www35.atwiki.jp/sfcall/pages/359.html.

Last edited by CHz; Mar 25, 2021 at 05:19 PM. Reason: minor role tweaking to more closely match what's in-game / default role translations
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Old Mar 7, 2011, 02:07 AM
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gogogogo CHz!

Gradius III and Ganbare Goemon are quite frustrating, though I suppose that's implied being that they're Konami. We really need an interview with Mr. Ueko~

I'll ask KFF about Pro Soccer.
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Old Mar 7, 2011, 06:55 AM
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Thanks for taking the initiative to clean these up.
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ok, Pro Soccer:
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Old Mar 7, 2011, 03:47 PM
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Excellent!
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I'll post a few new pictures i gathered.
This entry have a better CD picture, as well as a wonderful back insert. (that piece of art is really awesome)
I do have very few like this, wish i had more.

Also, the tracklist is tricky i think.. only the games are listed on the CD, the details comes with the insert or the magazine i think.
Maybe we should use both for making a practical tracklist.

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Old Mar 7, 2011, 04:26 PM
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Also, the tracklist is tricky i think.. only the games are listed on the CD, the details comes with the insert or the magazine i think.
Maybe we should use both for making a practical tracklist.
I'm sure it's just because there's absolutely no room on the disc for the track titles. What's printed on the CD is more a game list than a tracklist: "1~5: Final Fantasy IV, 6~8: Chohmakaimura," etc.

TIM-SFC09 includes the tracklist on the sleeve ("Magazine 5") and twice in the magazine itself ("Magazine 1" and "Magazine 6"), and all three times the game titles are used as headers and not included in the track titles. That tells me that that's how the tracklist is meant to be. For VGMdb, I really don't like adding things to track titles that aren't there on the album, like game titles and "arrange version." We should be accurate as possible and let people decide whether they want to add that stuff to their own copies. Same policy we follow with typos.

All that said, it's definitely problematic that these albums are compilations from a bunch of games. TIM-SFC02 has six tracks titled "Opening" and a seventh titled "Opening ~ STAGE 1." That's pretty ridiculous, so I was seriously considering keeping the game titles anyway. I think the optimal solution would be to have headers in the tracklist, like SEMO does, so the sections a tracklist are divided into are much clearer. But VGMdb doesn't have that capability.
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Found this credits site while looking for something else: http://www.critical.ne.jp/~kaze/gm/gm_sfcd.html

I compared it with a few scans we have and seems a very accurate listing, may be helpful.
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@CHz
For Pro Soccer, I believe I played through the Japanese version and got a credits screen. You'd be surprised how many games that were released both in Japan and the Western regions, and only the Japanese versions contain a staff roll. I can think of a few from the top of my head (Bases Loaded 4 NES, Pro Sport Hockey SNES, Arnold Palmer's Tournament Golf GEN, etc.)

In games that credit Norihiko Togashi, I've seen that he's mainly the only composer, but if you want, I could probably shoot him a message.
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Yeah, it's dead now but Lunar had posted a screen shot of the JP staff roll with the credit to Sawa.

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In games that credit Norihiko Togashi, I've seen that he's mainly the only composer, but if you want, I could probably shoot him a message.
If you're willing to, that'd be great. There are at least two other SNES games on these albums that you could ask if he did by himself too: Crayon Shin-chan: Arashi wo Yobu Enji and Last Fighter Twin.
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The two Area 88 tracks are arranged (by god knows who), as are all of the Super Ghouls 'N Ghosts tracks (not just the first one).

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I noticed under the English tracklist, all the Final Fantasy IV tracks were taken from the English list of this album.

I went ahead and put in proper translations (not sure if I should change 'Golbeza Clad in the Dark' to 'Golbeza Clad in Black' since they both could work).

By the way, I don't suppose there'd be any purpose in scanning anything in the magazine? Everything about the music CD seems to be contained only on the disc insert.

Edit: Nevermind! Page 16 seems to be a complete tracklist with some information. I'll scan that ASAP.
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I noticed under the English tracklist, all the Final Fantasy IV tracks were taken from the English list of this album.
I used those titles on this album because they're printed on the FFIV soundtrack, they were the official English titles of those tracks at this album's time of release (S-E has since changed a bunch of titles for their localization on iTunes etc.)
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