Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon + Goemon's Great Adventure composers by Lunar at 9:33 AM EDT on September 9, 2006
Just thought I'd bring to attention that the main composer responsible for the music in these two games has not been credited either USF set. The current composers listed in the USF sets are taken from the official CD soundtracks, however the original composer of the ingame music for both games is Kazuhiko Uehara (one of Konami's most prolific composers, also responsible for music to the rest of the Ganbare Goemon series among many other games).
These are links to the two CDs. From what I can gather from reading them, the other musicians listed under "Composer" are only credited as being part of the CD/Sound staff, perhaps as post production or performance and etc. I THINK they were involved with the 3 or 4 tracks with lyrics basically, which also happen to be the arranged ones. The 'composer' field seems a bit of a misnomer because of that, as those names are certainly not mentioned in the game credits for MNSG. Kazuhiko Uehara is mentioned in the game's end credits however (under Sound Composition or Sound Production or something), and there's even some of his own words at the bottom of the page for Goemon's Great Adventure linked above. He just seems to have had no direct involvement with the CD production.
If you need me to take a screenshot of the composer info in the credits of Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon as further proof that this is indeed the case, that can be sorted. My suggestion would be to simply add his name to the composer fields of both games, aswell as perhaps keeping the other names there if one must. This is all presuming anyone cares in the slightest about the integrity of information in the rips - the advice I gave regarding the Mario Kart 64 composer never got changed and was seemingly ignored, despite the solidity of it and number of people in agreement, so maybe I'm wasting my time here, but I figure I should give you the benefit of the doubt on that. As I say, just bringing it to your attention.
I do think we care. However, I also think it takes enough initiative to get these things done. I know I care. Perhaps HCS is really strapped for time, or forgets about it. If you send the miniUSF files, with correct tags, in an email, maybe that would help. As for correct credit to the composer, I'd say put the correct composer in the composer tags, and if you want, include the other guy (who's there now?) in the comments field. That's probably how I'd do it.
I remember you bringing up the Mario think earlier. Again, maybe just sending the corrected tags as a batch (for use with psfpoint? That's not to hard) or the miniUSFs themselves will help fix this issue. Though, HCS seems to be gone for a few days, so I'm not sure how soon anything can be done about it anyway.
Thanks for you concern, and information. I know I appreciate it. Mouser X over and out.
Yeah, I just beat the game and those four names are put under Composition. Uehara appears under Sound Producer, second from last name in the credits. So it would seem he was in charge of the soundtrack. That would at least explain re-use of some of his old material in the score.
So yeah, I suppose his name isn't essential as a composer. You could be quite pedantic and list him for songs that he and Ueko originally wrote that appear on the score, but it's probably not worth it. However, I do know as much as the three songs with lyrics have different composers:
Theme of Mystical Ninja: Hironobo Kageyama Gorgeous My Stage: Toshihiro Tachibana, Etsuyo Ota I am Impact!: Ichiro Mizuki
As I've already discovered, I'm a nitwit when it comes to tagging individual tracks/creating batch files to do it... so I'm at a bit of a loss there.
Well, it doesn't mention them as singers in the credits, it mentions their names under "Song:" (I have screenshots of the credits if you'd like). Perhaps that's a bad bit of translation on their part... maybe they meant "lyrics" or something with that... which could easily mean singer I suppose. You can't tell with those crazy japs sometimes.
I should probably hush up before I make any slipups, heh.
Considering that only the track with two vocalists has two "composers" listed, and Ichiro Mizuki is a fairly well known singer, I'm inclined to agree with Ferramenta.