List of staff (SSBM)

This is a list of the staff involved with the game Super Smash Bros. Melee. like its predecessor, Melee features an extended version of its full credit roll in which the credited personnel are matched to their specific roles in the production of the game (for example, the game's voice actors are matched to the characters that they voiced).^[1] Some names won't appear until the content relevant to them is unlocked.

Staff Credit

Chief Director

Masahiro Sakurai (HAL)
- Planning/Game Design
- Motion, Movie & Game Direction
- Data Design/Figure Explanations
- Character Design for Kirby

Assistant Chief Director

Yoichi Sukino (HAL)
- Planning
- Stage Design
- Player Collision
- Motion Transposition

Programming Director

Yoshiki Suzuki (HAL)
- Program Management
- System Programming

Programming

Akio Hanyu (HAL)
- Character, Stage Selection & Effect Programming

Isao Takahashi (HAL)
- Item, Special Move & Event Match Programming

Seiji Otoguro (HAL)
- Figure, Enemy & Device Programming

Yoshimi Takahashi (HAL)
- Item, Special Move & Device Programming

Kouichi Watanabe (HAL)
- Playable Character Programming

Masakazu Ebihara (HAL)
- Pokémon & Enemy Programming
- Database Management

Kazuhiro Mizusawa (HAL)
- Stage, Device & Camera Work Programming

Katsuhiro Sakoda (HAL)
- Item, Special Move & Event Match Programming

Masashi Yamane (HAL)
- Player Library, Dynamics & AI Programming

Yoshiya Taniguchi (HAL)
- Game Mode & Indication Programming

Yasuyuki Nagashima (HAL)
- Menu, Cinema Scene, Ending & Sprite Library Programming

Kim Sung-Kwen (HAL)
- Training & Tournament Programming

Tomokazu Tsuruoka (HAL)
- Playable Character & Special Bonus Programming

Takayuki Sugano (HAL)
- All-Star Mode & Staff Credit Programming

Design Director

Hitoshi Kobayashi
- Design Work Management
- Playable Character Modeling
- Item & Figure Design

Design

Tsuyoshi Wakayama (HAL)
- Item & Stage Modeling
- Device Design
- Figure Design Support

Tadashi Hashikura (HAL)
- Stage Modeling

Hitoshi Kikkawa (HAL)
- Playable Character, Enemy & Stage Modeling

Tetsuya Mochizuki (HAL)
- Playable Character & Enemy Modeling

Kenichiro Kita (HAL)
- Playable Character Modeling
- Artwork Design

Sanae Kubota (HAL)
- Stage Modeling

Michiko Takahashi (HAL)
- Menu, Character, Stage Selection & Staff Credit Design

Atsuko Nakamura (HAL)
- Enemy & Stage Modeling
- Device Design
- Opening Movie Design Support

Kunio Watanabe (HAL)
- Effect, Stage & Background Modeling

Masaru Kobayashi (HAL)
- Motion Design

Dai Suzuki (HAL)
- Motion Design

Akiko Hayashi (HAL)
- Motion Design

Mutsuo Ohmiya (HAL)
- Motion Design

Tatsuhiko Ohi (HAL)
- Motion Design

Takahashi Ariga (HAL)
- Motion Design

Masaya Akiyama (HAL)
- Motion Design

C. Shane Allala (HAL)
- Motion Design

Takaaki Kawahara (HAL)
- Game Demo Movie & Screen Shot Design

Kouji Akaike (HAL)
- Game Demo Movie & Screen Shot Design

Kazuo Yazawa (Creatures)
- Figure Modeling
- Creatures Staff Management
- Motion Design

Kei Hoshiba (Creatures)
- Playable Character Modeling
- Opening Movie Design
- Creatures Staff Management

Mikio Menjo (Creatures)
- Figure Modeling
- Motion Design

Katsura Tabata (Creatures)
- Figure Modeling
- Motion Design

Masahiro Abeki (Creatures)
- Figure Modeling
- Motion Design

Yuji Kawarada (Creatures)
- Figure Modeling
- Motion Design

Jungo Suzuki (Creatures)
- Figure Modeling
- Motion & Opening Movie Design

So Yoshimura (Creatures)
- Figure Modeling
- Motion Design

Yosuke Hirata (Creatures)
- Figure & Stage Modeling

Atsuko Ujiie (Creatures)
- Figure & Stage Modeling

Toru Kurashige (Creatures)
- Figure & Stage Modeling

Ryuta Kusumi (Creatures)
- Figure & Stage Modeling

Keita Komatsu (Creatures)
- Figure & Stage Modeling

Satomi Kokubo (Creatures)
- Figure & Stage Modeling

Hikaru Jinguji (Creatures)
- Figure & Stage Modeling

Hiromichi Sugiyama (Creatures)
- Figure Modeling (Assistant)

Nachi Sugiyama (Creatures)
- Figure Modeling (Assistant)

Yoshiyuki Tagawa (Creatures)
- Figure Modeling (Assistant)

Shinichi Yoshikawa (Creatures)
- Figure Modeling (Assistant)

Ken Ikuji (Creatures)
- Figure Modeling
- Opening Movie Design

Tomohiro Sato (Dice)
- Figure Modeling

Design Support (HAL)
- Hiroo Takeshita, Tomomi Minami, Reiko Iwao, Teruhiko Suzuki, Tomoko Nagaya

Sound & Music Directors

Hirokazu Ando
- Music Composition & Arrangement
- Music Coordination

Tadashi Ikegami
- Voice Coordination
- Sound Composition
- Music Arrangement

Shogo Sakai
- Music Composition & Arrangement
- Librarian

Takuto Kitsuta
- Music Arrangement
- Drums: Mute City Theme

Musical Performance

Taizo Takemoto
- Orchestra Conductor
Orchestra "Melee"
- Flute, Piccolo (2), Oboe, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Horn (3), Trumpet (3), Trombone (2), Tuba, Timpani, Percussion (3), Harp, Violin (14), Viola (4), Violoncello (4), Contra Bass (2)

Sound

Hirofumi Sako (Avaco Creative Sound)
- Mixing

Yuichi Kaneko (Avaco Creative Sound)
- Mixing Assistant

Masafumi Mima (Techno Sound)
- Pokémon Audio Planning

Voice acting

Dean Harrington: Narration, Master Hand (uncredited), Crazy Hand (uncredited)
Charles Martinet: Mario, Luigi, Dr. Mario
Nobuyuki Hiyama (Arts Vision): Link
Kazumi Totaka (Nintendo): Yoshi
Makiko Ohmoto (Aoni Prod.): Kirby, Ness
Shinobu Satouchi (Aoni Prod.): Fox (in-game vocal effects, Japanese cutscene dialogue)
Ikue Ohtani (Ezaki Prod.): Pikachu, Goldeen (Japanese, uncredited)
Mika Kanai^{[n 1]}^{[n 2]} (Arts Vision): Jigglypuff (Japanese), Chikorita, Marill (uncredited)
Rachael Lillis^{[n 1]}^{[n 3]}: Jigglypuff (English), Chansey (English, uncredited), Goldeen (English, uncredited)
Jen Taylor: Peach
Ryo Horikawa (Aoni Prod.): Captain Falcon
Jun Mizusawa (Arts Vision): Zelda, Sheik
Hikaru Midorikawa^{[n 4]} (Aoni Prod.): Marth
Masachika Ichimura^{[n 1]}: Mewtwo
Satomi Kohrogi^{[n 1]} (Prod.BAOBAB): Pichu, Togepi (uncredited)
Fujiko Takimoto^{[n 1]} (Arts Vision): Young Link
Jun Fukuyama^{[n 1]} (Prod.BAOBAB): Roy
Takashi Nagasako^{[n 5]} (Arts Vision): Ganondorf
Sanae Kobayashi (Prod.BAOBAB): Popo, Nana (uncredited)
Hisao Egawa (Aoni Prod.): Falco (in-game vocal effects, Japanese cutscene dialogue)
Tomohisa Aso^{[n 2]} (Aoni Prod.): Peppy (Japanese)
Kyoko Tongu^{[n 2]} (Aoni Prod.): Slippy (Japanese)
Chris Seavor^{[n 3]}: Peppy (English), Slippy (English)
Ben Cullum^{[n 3]}: Falco (English cutscene dialogue)
Steve Malpass^{[n 3]}: Fox (English cutscene dialogue)
Yuji Ueda^{[n 2]} (Arts Vision): Cyndaquil, Wobbuffet (Japanese)
Shin'ichiro Miki^{[n 2]} (81 Produce): Scizor (Japanese), Charizard (uncredited), Staryu (uncredited)
James W. Norwood, Jr. (MRG Enterprises): "DK Rap" vocals

Crowd cheers

Bill Trinen
Tim O'Leary
Nate Bihldorff

Uncredited

Koichi Yamadera: Mew
Mayumi Iizuka: Bellossom (Japanese), Chansey (Japanese), Clefairy (Japanese)
Unsho Ishizuka: Blastoise (Japanese), Weezing (Japanese)
Katsuyuki Konishi: Snorlax (Japanese)
Ryuzaburo Otomo: Venusaur (Japanese)
Eric Stuart: Blastoise (English), Venusaur (English), Scizor (English)
Michael J. Haigney: Snorlax (English), Weezing (English)
Kayzie Rogers Bellossom (English), Wobbuffet (English)
Tara Sands: Clefairy (English)

North American localization

English text editing

Rich Amtower
Bill Trinen
Jeff Miller

English text writing

Bill Trinen

English translation

Tim O'Leary
Nate Bihldorff

Localization management

Jeff Miller
Leslie Swan

U.S. text writing support

Norimasa Tanikawa

European localisation

German text

Daniel Schäfers^{[n 6]}

French text

Pierre Sanchez^{[n 6]}

Spanish text

Palma Sánchez de Moya^{[n 6]}

Italian text

Massimo Maietti^{[n 6]}

Coordination

Hiroyuki Uesugi^{[n 6]}

Localisation management

Kai Zeh^{[n 6]}
Tanja Baar^{[n 6]}

Original game staff

Producer and director of original games

Shigeru Miyamoto

Mario, Luigi, Link, and Donkey Kong character designs

Shigeru Miyamoto

Star Fox and F-Zero character designs

Takaya Imamura

The Legend of Zelda character illustration

Yusuke Nakano

Metroid game design

Yoshio Sakamoto

Samus character design

Hiroji Kiyotake

Super Metroid CG design

Tomoyoshi Yamane

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time director

Eiji Aonuma

Ice Climber director

Kenji Miki

Ice Climber character designs

Tadashi Sugiyama

Yoshi character design

Shigefumi Hino

Kirby character design

Masahiro Sakurai

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time character designs

Yoshiki Haruhana

Ganondorf character design

Satoshi Takizawa^{[n 5]}

EarthBound producers

Shigesato Itoi
Tsunekazu Ishihara

Yoshi's Story producer

Takashi Tezuka

Miscellaneous Nintendo character designs

Makoto Kano
Toru Osawa

Pokémon executive director

Satoshi Tajiri

Pokémon director

Junichi Masuda

Pokémon graphic director

Ken Sugimori

Pokémon programming

Shigeki Morimoto
Tetsuya Watanabe
Sousuke Tamada
Tetsuji Ohta

Pokémon planning

Kouji Nishino

Pokémon coordination

Hiroyuki Jinnai

Pokémon product supervision

Tsunekazu Ishihara

Fire Emblem director

Tohru Narihiro^{[n 4]}

Fire Emblem designer

Masahiro Higuchi^{[n 4]}

Fire Emblem scenario

Masayuki Horikawa^{[n 4]}

Fire Emblem art director

Taeko Kaneda^{[n 4]}

Fire Emblem supervisor

Kentaro Nichimura^{[n 4]}

Super Mario Bros. and Star Fox 64 music composition

Koji Kondo

The Legend of Zelda music composition

Koji Kondo
Akito Nakatsuka

Kirby Super Star music composition

Jun Ishikawa

Metroid music composition

Hirokazu Tanaka

EarthBound music composition

Keiichi Suzuki

Ice Climber music composition

Akito Nakatsuka

F-Zero X music composition

Taro Bando

Donkey Kong Country music composition

David Wise

Creatures staff management

Kei Hoshiba
Ashura Benimaru Itoh

Nintendo character supervisor

Yoichi Kotabe

Special thanks

Conductor coordination

Yuji Yasuda

Voice cast coordination

Noriyoshi Matsuura

"DK Stage Rap" vocal coordination

Steve "Bang" Pang

Orchestra coordination

Reiko Yanami

Choir coordination

Suehiro Endo

Pokémon supervisors

Hiroki Enomoto
Kazuyuki Terada
Akihito Tamura
Ryohei Itakura

Pokémon coordination

Gakuji Nomoto
Ai Mashima
Kunimi Kawamura
Masayuki Miura
Yumiko Murai

Proofreading for Pokémon

Takemoto Mori

Marigul Management

Hisakazu Hirabayashi
Masachi Uchiyama
Yuko Yamamoto
Kazutoshi Iida
Rikuo Kurebayashi
Kouji Suzuki
Shigeo Sasaki

Totakeke rough design

Yumi Yoshimi^{[n 7]}

Original game staff

Satomi Maekawa
Wataru Yamaguchi
Hiroaki Takenaka
Tomoaki Kuroume
Katsuya Eguchi
Hisashi Nogami
Noriko Ikegawa
Yoshiaki Koizumi
Hiromu Takemura
Jin Ikeda
Junji Morii
Hiroyuki Kimura
Takeshi Hosono
Shinya Takahashi
Tsuyoshi Watanabe
Aya Sumimoto
Tokihiko Toyoda
Tatsuya Hishida
Yasuhiro Sakai
Kenta Usui
Mitsuhiro Takano
Masamichi Abe
Hiroyuki Yamada
Keisuke Terasaki
Masashi Goto
Masanori Sato
Takehiro Izushi
Hitoshi Yamagami
Hiroshi Sato
Toshiharu Izuno
Shigeki Yamashiro
Jun Tsujimoto
Nintendo Software Technology

Wilcolinks Digiworks, Inc.

Hideki Nakano
Yoshihisa Kato
Keiichi Abe
Takeo Niikura
Masako Ohno

HAL Lab Debug Team

Senji Hirose et al.

Nintendo Co., Ltd. debug staff

Tsutomu Kaganezawa
Masahiro Takeguchi
Hironobu Kakui
Super Mario Club

Nintendo of America debug staff^{[n 8]}

Michael Kelbaugh
Kyle Hudson
Eric Bush
Randy Shoemake
Kiyohiko Ando
Michael Chipman
Jason Mahaffa
Chris Needham
David Hunziker
Nicko Gonzalez
NOA Debug Team

Nintendo of Europe debug staff^{[n 6]}

Maurice Tisdale
Nick Hooijer
Ángel Victoria
NOE Debug Team

Digital Media Lab

Shinji "Miki & Gaku" Torigoge
Tadashi Tominaga
Masaki Sakai
Nozomi Sanada
Satoshi Maruyama
Takayuki Higurashi
Manabu Takahashi
Syozi "Okap" Okada
Kazuhiro Nakatani
Kensuke Yamamoto

Public relations

Satoshi Ishida
Tetsuya Notoya

Buildup

Nobuya Okabe
Satoshi Nagaoka
Tetsuya Amabiki
Masayuki Gotoh
Naoto Oonuki
Takayuki Hayama
Tomoya Ohata
Fumihito Saito
Ryoko Suzuki
Kazutsugu Kosugi
Shin Kitada
Hajime Ishiyama

Ryuichi Noguchi
- Planning
- Stage Design Support

Sysdolphin

Chiharu Itoh
Hidetoshi Seki
Jun Yamasaki
Shigeru Hirayama
Junichi Aoyagi
Tatsuhiro Tanoue
Takaaki Kazuno
Hajime Kojima
Takashi Matsuda
Takashi Saito
Takeshi Shimada
Hiroshi Yoshino
Satoshi Kira

Artwork coordination

Masao Kamada^{[n 8]}

General coordination

Yukiko Kishimoto
Kamon Yoshimura^{[n 8]}

Nintendo Support Staff^{[n 8]}

Koji Uyama
Takeshi Furuta
Ryuta Kaimoto
Kensuke Tanabe
Shin Hasegawa

Marketing supervision

Satoru Iwata
Minoru Arakawa^{[n 8]}
Manabu "Mike" Fukuda^{[n 8]}

Package and manual design, editing, and printing

Ryuji Hagino
Kazuya Konishi
Hisatoshi Takeuchi
Emi Masai
Tomoko Kitada
Hiroshi Fujie
Kaori Nishimura

Project Manager

Ryuki Kuraoka

Producers

Masayoshi Tanimura
Hiroaki Suga
Shigeru Miyamoto
Kenji Miki

Executive Producer

Hiroshi Yamauchi (NINTENDO)
- Executive President of Nintendo, Japan

Copyrights

Nintendo

HAL Laboratory, Inc.

This Game title "SUPER SMASH BROS. MELEE" includes many Characters, Items and Music, some of which are used courtesy of the following;

Creatures Inc.

Pokémon

GAME FREAK Inc.

Pokémon

APE Inc.

Earthbound

Keichi Suzuki

Earthbound

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS^{[n 4]}

Fire Emblem series (Japan only), etc.

Noise(Marigul)^{[n 7]}

Custom Robo V2 (Japan only)

Saru Brunei(Marigul)^{[n 7]}

DOBUTSU BANCHO (TBD)

Param^{[n 7]}

DOSHIN THE GIANT (TBD)

Rare Ltd.

CERTAIN CHARACTERS AND ITEMS FROM PERFECT DARK AND DONKEY KONG COUNTRY 2.
DONKEY KONG 64 RAP MUSIC BASED ON ORIGINAL DONKEY KONG 64
MUSIC COURTESY OF RARE LIMITED

All Rights of this game "SUPER SMASH BROS. MELEE", including the copyrights of Game, Scenario, Music and Program, but excluding the copyrights reserved by companies and person who already shown, reserved by Nintendo and/or HAL Laboratory, Inc.

©︎2001, 2002 Nintendo/HAL Laboratory, Inc.
Characters©︎Nintendo/HAL Laboratory, Inc./Creatures Inc./GAME FREAK inc./APE inc./INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Only appears if the relevant fighter is unlocked.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Only appears in the Japanese versions.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Only appears in the non-Japanese versions.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Only appears if Marth is unlocked.
^ ^a ^b Only appears if Ganondorf is unlocked.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Only appears in the PAL version.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Only appears if the relevant trophy is unlocked.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Only appears in the NTSC versions.

References

^ http://themushroomkingdom.net/ssbm_credits-full.shtml

[unlf-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Only appears if the relevant fighter is unlocked.

[jpcr-3] Only appears in the Japanese versions.

[intcr-4] Only appears in the non-Japanese versions.

[unlm-5] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Only appears if Marth is unlocked.

[unlg-6] Only appears if Ganondorf is unlocked.

[palcr-7] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Only appears in the PAL version.

[unlt-8] Only appears if the relevant trophy is unlocked.

[ntsccr-9] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Only appears in the NTSC versions.

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