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The following list features people who have participated in an arrangement but are either not credited as the main arranger, or not credited within the games but were mentioned by the arranger. Also listed are Takenobu Mitsuyoshi and Tomoko Sasaki, who provided vocals for their own arrangements. Jun Fukuda, listed above for one arrangement, also provided vocals for a different remix for which he was not the arranger. | The following list features people who are confirmed to have participated in an arrangement but are either not credited as the main arranger, or not credited within the games but were mentioned by the arranger. Also listed are Takenobu Mitsuyoshi and Tomoko Sasaki, who provided vocals for their own arrangements. Jun Fukuda, listed above for one arrangement, also provided vocals for a different remix for which he was not the arranger. | ||
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Latest revision as of 18:23, September 8, 2024
Masahiro Sakurai at a gathering of many musicians whose arrangements were featured in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
The following is a list of composers who have composed, arranged, and remixed music for the Super Smash Bros. series. This list does not include composers of tracks taken directly from other sources.
The following list features people who are confirmed to have participated in an arrangement but are either not credited as the main arranger, or not credited within the games but were mentioned by the arranger. Also listed are Takenobu Mitsuyoshi and Tomoko Sasaki, who provided vocals for their own arrangements. Jun Fukuda, listed above for one arrangement, also provided vocals for a different remix for which he was not the arranger.
Trivia[edit]
- For unspecified reasons, Asuka Ito was never credited on the Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U official website's composers list.
- Grant Kirkhope and Toby Fox are the only non-Japanese composers to arrange music for the Super Smash Bros. series.
- Incidentally, both composers remixed songs they originally composed.
- Also incidentally, both songs in question were added to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate in the same update.
- A total of 108 composers have remixed and/or arranged original music for the Super Smash Bros. series.
- Brawl has the most amount of new composers with 38, while 64 has the least amount of them with one sole composer (Hirokazu Ando).
- Ando also has the most music credits in the series, having done 56 music pieces counting arrangements and Smash-specific compositions.
- Ando is also the only composer to have his work appear in every game in the series.
- Ando and Shogo Sakai are tied for the highest number of new music tracks in Melee, at 14.
- Sakai would also contribute more to Brawl than any other composer, with 21 compositions.
- Junichi Nakatsuru would contribute the most to Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U, with 9 tracks between both games.
- Nobuko Toda would contribute the most compositions to Ultimate, arranging 9 songs for the game.
- If including different versions, there is a grand total of 458 remixes in the Super Smash Bros. series.
- Of them, there are 141 original music pieces in the series.
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d Super Smash Bros. Melee Smashing…Live! Live Orchestra Music.
- ^ Melee Music Developer Roundtable: Musical Arrangements. SourceGaming.info (original Japanese publication on Sumabura-Ken!!) (2016-05-16). Retrieved on 2018-12-20. “Ando: That makes me think that the tunes that gave me lots of trouble are somehow worth less than the ones that were a breeze. For the “Green Greens,” “Pokémon Floats,” and some other stage music, I simply made my arrangement and was done. But, the menu theme… That was a tough one! (laughs)”
- ^ Melee Music Developer Roundtable: Orchestra and Chorus I. SourceGaming.info (original Japanese publication on Sumabura-Ken!!) (2016-05-10). Retrieved on 2018-12-20. “Ando: For the opening music, that was February 14th, I think. I was working and Mr. Sakurai came by to listen to what I had. His face grew stern, he said, “well, then,” and it was decided that Mr. Sakai would compose that song.”
- ^ Melee Music Developer Roundtable: Musical Arrangements. SourceGaming.info (original Japanese publication on Sumabura-Ken!!) (2016-05-16). Retrieved on 2018-12-20. “Sakurai: The “Menu 2” theme, however, would be played only after players had met certain requirements. So I wanted it to feel refreshing, like something already familiar to them, like they were watching the game’s’ stages from afar. Sakai: And that “refreshing” feel is exactly where I began to go wrong. Did that mean a cheery spring-like tune? I had no idea what I should do.”
- ^ a b Takahiro Nishi's Myspace.
- ^ a b Sonic Team sound director on why he chose Mega Man 4 as his contribution to Smash Bros. Ultimate - Nintendo Everything
- ^ a b c d Shota Kageyama official website
- ^ Tadashi Ikegami: [...]The same thing happened during the recording for Mute City's guitar parts.
Masahiro Sakurai: Oh, is that so? How did that go?
Shogo Sakai: It was done by a guitarist named "MARO," from Data East, also of Gamadelic.
—Melee Music Developer Roundtable: Monkey Rap (translated by Source Gaming) - ^ 小寺可南子(KanakoKotera) on Twitter (ja). Twitter (November 7, 2019).
- ^ a b True Blue: The Best of Sonic the Hedgehog album credits
