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Among VGM's five billion unsolved mysteries are the identities of a bunch of folks who composed for Compile. Sure, we have a good handle on a bunch of them, like Katsumi Tanaka and Toshiaki Sakoda, but there are still a lot of weird names in there like BA.M and Jolly-T and PRO SUGAR.
While trying to figure out who these guys are, I've run across this page a few times: http://ragospi.blog40.fc2.com/?m&no=188. It has a giant list of sound guys and games they worked on, along with aliases. The thing is that it's majorly unsourced and it's the only page that makes a lot of these artist-alias connections, so it's totally unclear to me how much of this is reliable. Some of the names listed even have question marks after them. But hey, I kind of feel like translating it for some reason. So I'll group these into lists. What I choose as the header may not necessarily be the composer's real name. I'll put the questionable aliases I couldn't corroborate in red. Masatomo Miyamoto
Takeshi Santo
SHIN-KUN
Atarashi (あたらし)
Sydon? Inoue (井上 志純)
Keiji Takeuchi (竹内 啓史)
Toshiaki Sakoda
Masanobu Tsukamoto
Einosuke Nagao
Tsuyoshi Matsushima
BA.M
Toshie Oya (大矢知恵) (reading)
Satoshi Shimazaki
Katsumi Tanaka
Koji Onari
Nobuaki Yamasaki
Kazuaki Nagai (永井 一明)
Osamu Ishikawa
Keita Haga
Makoto Mano (真野 誠)
多和田吉宏 (reading unknown: Yoshihiro Tawada?)
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Seiichi Takamoto (Solidtune profile confirms he worked for Compile)
青木諒 (reading unknown: Ryo Aoki?)
Junichi Yoshida
Daisuke Nagata
Kou Hayashi
Shigeharu Imano
Fumiaki Kawashima (川嶋 文明)
Last edited by CHz; Mar 30, 2022 at 06:58 PM. Reason: added source for Toshie Oya's reading |
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Slight update: the correct reading of 南智紀 is Tomonori Minami, according to Taishow Soulwax (Nobuaki Yamasaki).
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Neat. Did he confirm that that's BA.M's real name, too?
I haven't really researched any of these people all that much since I translated the list last year, so I don't have anything to add myself. Most of the sources of the info remain mysterious. |
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yup. this info has been around for awhile but I forgot to post it. :P
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I'm wondering who "Civic Shinkun" is from Tombs & Treasure. The Famicom version credits him as シビック しんくん (Same translation).
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Probably the same "Shin-kun" who's credited for sound effects in Xevious: Fardraut Saga (MSX2) and sound in Aleste (MSX) and Shin Maou Golvellius (MSX2).
Last edited by CHz; Dec 2, 2013 at 02:29 PM. |
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Did Maekawa ever work for Compile? He told me himself that he started at Now Production in 1988, and was there until he started Music Worx in 1994, though I suppose it's possible he was at Compile before that.
Also, he usually went by Senkan Kiyoshi, from what I've seen. |
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Ohhhh yeah you're right, I was mixing up developers for a couple of games. Not sure why I thought Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu in particular was a Compile game when it's totally not. I should probably look things up before typing them.
(And yeah, Maekawa had a lot of "______ Kiyoshi" aliases. The Kiyoshi bit was the important common ground, not Shinkon.) |
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Maekawa joined NowPro after graduating from university.
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Also, I believe there is a Shin-kun credited in Super Bases Loaded 3 for SNES. I wonder if it's the same person (probably not since it's by TOSE). Last edited by Doommaster1994; Dec 2, 2013 at 02:47 PM. |
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If it's a sound credit, that might be Shinji Amagishi. |
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My mistake, the name was シビックん (Civic-kun).
Also, that's too bad about Maekawa. |
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SHIN-KUN is apparently S. Kondo, per this Aleste cassette: https://vgmdb.net/forums/showthread.php?p=78758. (Game credits are for MIYAMO, SHANTO, and SHIN-KUN, tape credits are for M. Miyamoto, T. Santo, and S. Kondo).
Your guess is as good as mine for their full name. Only remote possibility I could find is programmer Shigemi Kondo, but Shigemi doesn't really fit SHIN-KUN and they appear to have been working for SOFEL in 1988, not Compile. |
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Very interesting! The same staff worked on Tombs & Treasure (Shin-kun is Civic Shin-kun). I am in touch with a couple staff members from Compile. I haven't spoke to them in a long time. I was asking one of them who composed Gorby no Pipeline Daisakusen but they couldn't tell me. Not sure if it they weren't legally allowed to or if they didn't know. Their response sounded more like the latter.
Credits screenshots from Tombs & Treasure: USA: http://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php/..._-_Credits.png Japan: http://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php/..._-_Credits.png |
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